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    • Sanborn-Hopper Family Archive
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      • 2011: A Year of Edward Hopper
      • Edward Hopper House and the making of an artist (video)
      • Hopper Happens (2011 & 2012)
      • Hopper's NYC Studio
    • Teen Leadership - Nighthawks >
      • Nighthawks ARTifacts Project
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    • Currently on View >
      • Liliane Tomasko: Evening Wind
      • Edward Hopper's Bedroom: Reimagined
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past exhibitions >
      • Josephine Nivison Hopper: Edward's Muse
      • 2021 >
        • Caricatures
        • Terry Rosenberg
      • 2020 >
        • Object Lessons
        • Thirty Seven
      • 2019 >
        • Rodney Smith
        • Hopper Through Photography
        • John Morton: Place of Origin
        • Michael Banning: Hopper / Hammershøi
        • Alastair Noble: Message In A Bo(a)ttle
        • Holly Zausner and Mott Hupfel: Unsettled Matter
        • Angela Fraleigh: Shadows Searching For Light
      • 2018 >
        • Milton Glaser: Landscape Prints
        • Claudia Alvarez: Boy in a Room
        • Sean Scully: No Words
        • Carrie Mae Weems Beacon
      • 2017 >
        • Richard Tuschman Hopper Meditations
        • Mercedes Helnwein CHAOS THEORY:
        • Rock, Paper, Scissors
      • 2016 >
        • David LaChapelle: Gas Stations
        • Side by Side: Robert Natkin and Judith Dolnick
        • Where We Are Standing: Contemporary Women Artists from Iran
      • 2015 >
        • Behind Doors and Through Windows
        • Jordan Matter
        • John F. Simon, Jr.
        • Philip Koch
        • Small Matters 2015
        • 2015 Artists of the Month
        • Members Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • Viviane Silvera photo
        • Joanne Howard Audio Tour & Photos
        • Small Matters of Great Importance: 2014
        • Melanie Rothschild installation
        • Members' Show 2014
        • Jo Hopper - Grace De Coeur 2014
        • Rockland Painters opening
        • 2014 Artists of the Month
      • 2013 >
        • Dorothea Lange's America
        • My Dear Mr. Hopper
        • Ghost Army 2013
        • Oursler opening 2013
        • Members' show 2013
        • Arthur Gunther 2013
        • 2013 Artists of the Month
      • 2012 >
        • Max Greis & Philip Koch Photos
        • Earth, Sea & In Between
        • Sky Pape & Kari Lindstrom
        • Kari Lindstrom dance performance
        • Currents 2012
        • SMGI 2012 Photos
        • Members' Exhibition-photos
      • 2011 >
        • Hopper Re-imagined-photos
        • Hopperesque-photos
        • Prelude-photo
        • SMGI 2011 opening
      • 2010
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    • Sculpture in the Garden
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      • Sail Through Art History
      • Hopper Scenes, A "Second Act"
      • Nighthawks Magic
      • Hopper's Birthday with Anne Kullaf
      • Nyack Record Shop Project
      • Her Magnum Opus
      • Adult Art Workshop with Ceora Derow
      • 2017 Nyack Artwalk, Scapin
      • Bridgman/Packer "Voyeur"
    • For Families
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    • Spring Benefit 2017 - Art, Architecture, And A Study Center Rises
    • Arts Education - Ellis Sotheby's 2016
    • Spring Benefit 2015 - Hopper on the Hudson
    • Spring Benefit 2014 - At Home with Jo & Ed
    • Spring Benefit 2013 - Pretty Penny
    • Raise the Roof 2011
EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE MUSEUM AND STUDY CENTER

Sculpture in the Garden 2021

​DOROTHY GILLESPIE

This exhibition has been organized by
Alexandra Davies and Gary Israel
"Seeing in the mind’s eye a vision – then setting up a procedure to produce the vision – then having the courage to let the spiritual core of the human experience come to the fore in that vision; maybe this has something to do with creativity."—Dorothy Gillespie

Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center is pleased to present an exhibition of sculpture by Dorothy Gillespie (1920-2012) in the garden from June 29 through October 1, 2021. Well known as a painter, sculptor and installation artist, Gillespie incorporated many significant 20th-century trends in her art. She pioneered joyful new directions in metal sculpture and is best known for her large-scale, colorfully painted arrangements of cut aluminum strips that radiate, undulate, or curl like giant arrangements of ribbon, enchanted towers, or bursting fireworks. 
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Born in Roanoke, VA, Gillespie declared early on her intention to become an artist. She studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore before moving to New York City, where she studied at the Art Student's League and Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17. Gillespie's career spanned seven decades, and was always in the forefront of the American Art movement. Early in her career, she contributed to the women’s art movement through her work as Artist in Residence at the Women's Interart Center in New York in 1972 and through her lecture series at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1977.  

Gillespie's works have graced many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public places. She was one of the first artists to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, the Warren Wilson College, the Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, the Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, St. Marks School-Dallas, the United States Mission to the United Nations, Miami Public Library, and Court House Square-Roanoke, VA. Gillespie is also the subject of numerous reviews, critical essays, film and radio interviews as well as a book published by the Radford University Foundation Press. 

Among her many honors, Gillespie received the Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award; a Doctor of Pedagogy from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, a Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) from Caldwell College in Caldwell, NY, an Allied Professions Award from the Virginia Society, the American Institute of Architects in Richmond, VA, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, the Outstanding Services Award from University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art, and the Gala 8  "Distinguished Woman" Award at Birmingham Southern College.
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Our friends at the Nyack Library currently have Dorothy Gillespie's "Starburst" work up on our main floor and a collection of smaller pieces in a glass display case on our 3rd floor mezzanine. The library is open regular summer hours--no appointments necessary to come in and seating is available.
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Sculpture in the Garden 2019
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​coordinating with the "ALASTAIR NOBLE: Message In a Bo(a)ttle" Gallery exhibition, featuring sculptures by Andranik AroutiouniaN, Eliza Evans, David Herbert, Simone Kestelman, Chris PLaisted, Megumu Tagami, and Kathy Bruce.

Curated by Eric David Laxman

Sculpture in the Garden 2018
Mark Attebery, Caroline Bergonzi, Gil Hawkins, Howard Kalish, Doris Laughton-Smith

​curated by Eric David Laxman​

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John Morton:
​Fever Songs

June 7 - October 28, 2018

​Fever Songs is an interactive sound installation focusing on the variety of chants, incantations, songs, and vocalized text found in religious expression throughout the world.  This is an interactive musical experience where the audience is free to wander in a specified space and as they move about, sensors will be activated. 
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Sculpture in the Garden 2017
Lannie Hart, Sarah Haviland, Stephen Keltner, Peter Strasser 

​curated by Eric David Laxman​
​photos by Charis J. Carmichael Braun

Sculpture in the Garden 2016
Santi Hitorangi and James Tyler

Photos by Ray Wright
The Edward Hopper House is pleased to present Sculpture in the Garden 2016 featuring the work of James Tyler and Santi Hitorangi. 

Santi Hitorangi will be showing some of his carved stone sculptures.  As a member of the Hitorangi Atan clan from his native Rapa Nui (Easter Island), he learned the traditional art of sculpting.   His clan was known to be the carvers of thousands of Moai (colossal rock statues) that were made from volcanic rock, which can still be found on the island.   In 1998, Hitorangi appeared in the NOVA series, “The Lost Empires,” for which he sculpted a full-scale replica of a Moai.   In Rapa Nui’s struggle to gain self-determination, he represents their community in various international forums, including the United Nations and Rio+20. 

James Tyler will be exhibiting his Brickhead Assemblage sculptures. The Brickhead 
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installations are unique colossal heads that invite us to identify with the world’s ceramic heritages. They bring today’s faces together with pre-Columbian, South American, Native American, Asian, African, and Western influences.  For ancient peoples, colossal stone and clay heads, often symbolized their connections with the spirits they worshipped, and these, in turn, often represented the elements, such as rain and sun, or other larger-than-life phenomena, such as death and love.  For the Brickhead Assemblages,elements of Tyler’s larger Colossus and Brickhead series are combined with the found object assembly techniques more often associated with the works of folk or ‘outsider’ artists.  The result is a striking duality of frivolous absurdity overlaid with what could only be described as a ‘the world is coming to an end’ vision of humanity’s collective doom. These are the sculptural ruins of our own civilization not yet passed.
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Sculpture in the Garden 2015
Thea Lanzisero, Conrad Levenson, Eric David Laxman, and Elaine Lorenz

​Curated by Eric David Laxman
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